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Transactions: WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION SCIENCE AND APPLICATIONS
Transactions ID Number: 31-414
Full Name: Junkang Feng
Position: Professor
Age: ON
Sex: Male
Address: School of Computing, University of the West of Scotland
Country: UNITED KINGDOM
Tel: 0044 141 8483548
Tel prefix: 0044
Fax: 0044 141 8483542
E-mail address: junkang.feng@uws.ac.uk
Other E-mails: dr.junkangfeng@gmail.com
Title of the Paper: A Framework and Implementation of Information Content Reasoning in a Database
Authors as they appear in the Paper: Xiaochuan Wu and Junkang Feng
Email addresses of all the authors: xiaochuan.wu@uws.ac.uk, junkang.feng@uws.ac.uk
Number of paper pages: 10
Abstract: Databases' capability is limited in terms of inference. Especially, when users explore information beyond the scope of data within databases, the databases normally cannot provide the information. The underlying reason of the problem is that queries are answered based on a direct match between a query and data (up to aggregations of the data). We observe that it is possible to find information from a database beyond that. To this end, we propose a framework for information content reasoning in a database. A number of basic concepts are defined first. Then we present the framework and explain how it works. Moreover, we describe how such a framework is implemented by means of a prototype including a test with sample queries.
Keywords: Information content, Reasoning, Knowledge discovery from databases, Semantic theory of information, Databases
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